Because no one cares about my messages here, I decided to start my own topic.

I met Conan O'Brien last month when I was in New York and now I would like to share my experience with someone, who also have met him. Is there someone here who has experienced the same? Where, how and what did you think about him? Or if you have been in the show audience? What did you think about it?

I'm not that scary, you know, even if you sometimes answer to my messages, just a bit of crazy about Conan...

Why don't you tell about your experience and you'll get more responses. I haven't met him.

Nobody's ignoring you on purpose here. People are just more likely to respond to those who they know.

Please, don't be upset. I'm quite new here myself, and I didn't get all my first messages answered either. But you should not take it personally. It might be that people have just missed your messages or your message is under "wrong" title, while real discussion about your topic is somewhere else. There is for example thread called "My Late Night taping report" where you can find experiences of people who have been in the audience. (And I have to admit that I haven't noticed it either until recently.)

It would be nice to hear about your meeting with Conan in NYC. You were at the taping, am I right? I haven't been there but I would SO wanna go... I have seen Conan when he was here in Finland (first at the airport, and few times outside of hotel Kämppi) but I wouldn't say I met him. I mean, I barely get speak to him. (There were so many people around him all the time.) But I saw him, I got his autograph - that was enough to make me happy.

I'm sorry bluecross if you feel left out!!

It was completely unintentional, trust me!! If you visited here more often & posted more, you'd get more answers too

I don't get my messages answered that often either. But don't take it personally. People just post here so much that posting answers to every single message by whosoever would simply be a waste of time & space. And sometimes something as human as missing something by error occures, which I think was in this case.

Tell us about yout experience please? We'd LOVE to hear it

Where are you??

I'm sorry I had so little patience. I was just so excited about my experience especially when I first had so much trouble with booking the tickets and I was so depressed because of it. I was so sure that I would never see the show or Conan live and then I finally got more than I expected.

I would like to be here more but now in the summer I mainly have to use public computers and as you know the time you can use them is limited. That's why I have no time to tell my story today, maybe tomorrow.

Why am I so excited? Because I want everyone to know that even if they didn't get the tickets beforehand, they haven't lost anything yet. I thought I had and got depressed.

Sorry again.

It's okay

can't wait to hear your story!!

(btw, I'm using public comps as well [for now] and look what a flood I've created here, lol )

Conan waved to me from the stage at his show!!!! but i never did get to exchange words with him.

Same here. But when I was waiting Conan outside of the hotel they came out with camera crew and started to shoot some material where Conan gave everyone an autograph and then they went to the park which was near and then they shooted little clip where Conan was sitting on the bench and then he turned around and sees his fans next to him and then waved to them and fans waved back to him. I was 1 of the guys. =)

Oooh, that's so cool

For some reason or another this computer that I'm using hasn't let me even to browse in this board until now. So sorry that you have been forced to wait for my replies.

So I was in New York with my sister last month and went to queue stand by-tickets for the show on 21st May, that episode where Conan had Dominic Monaghan as a guest. We went there at 5 AM and we were the first ones at the place. And the second ones didn't come until 6 AM. So after all there was no reason to worry for the tickets at all. We planned first to go there at 4 AM but we didn't feel up to wake up so early. When we before our trip told about our plans to our friends and relatives they said that we are crazy and it's dangerous and that we shouldn't do it. But what wouldn't we do for Conan...

That was a funny show, I think the most interesting thing to see there was what Conan does during the breaks. But I was so excited that I didn't venture to scream so much or even shout that "I love you, Conan!" as I planned at home. That annoys me a bit.

After the show we stayed for a while in Rockefeller Center because we knew that Conan would have a one hour meeting after the taping before he goes home (I have read it in that great fan book!). We thought that we might have some chance to see him but we didn't saw him that night. We saw him on Wednesday. But I must tell that story next time.

That sounds like a lot of fun! I'm interested to hear about how you met him. I've never met Conan but I really don't want to either. I have coulrophobia. I saw him in person once at a taping, which I'm really content with. I guess I got lucky that he just happened to be there.

And sorry if you felt ignored before.

I don't think Iwas ignored, I just had too little patience as I always do...

When I saw him coming out of that door on 6th Avenue, I had to think twice before I ventured to stop him and speak to him. But then when I had started, I was quite relaxed and it was surprisingly easy to be with him.

We went to Rockefeller Center about half 7 in the evening and sat on the fountain on 6th avenue. We knew that he could come from that door on that street because someone had revealed it here on the board . Then we saw La Bamba and Scott Healy to come from that door and then they came over the street, right in front of us. After a while I ventured to ask them, if they were members of the Max Weinberg 7 (I didn't remember Scott's name, I only knew that he's the one who plays the keyboard!) and if we could take a picture of them. They said that it's OK and I took that picture.

We sat there a while and watched amazed the pictures I had taken and then we saw that someone who looked like Max Weinberg came out and spoke to phone. My sister paid her attention to someone on the street and asked me if he was Conan O'Brien and I paid my attention to him too. But he wasn't and meanwhile Max was gone.

We went to the other side of the street because it was likely that soon Conan could come out and we didn't want to loose him too. We stood there a while and Max came out again. So he had gone back to the building while we followed someone else. After considering for a while I ventured to stop him and ask him if he was Max Weinberg and if I could take a picture of him. He said that it's OK and asked me if I was from Finland (I had my Finland T-shirt on). I said "yes" and he suggested that we could take the picture in front of GE-building text. Then he asked if I had got the picture and I thanked him for that.

Then it was VERY likely that Conan would come soon from that same door too and we were VERY excited. Actually we didn't know if he would come or not and we just waited and waited and only stared that door. And then... There he was!!!!!! Oh my God!

"I can't believe it!", I said to my sister and it seemed like he would have stood there in front of the door a while even if he didn't. Then he walked towards us and once again I had to think a while before I could stop him and talk to him. I said to him:"Hi, Conan. We are big fans of yours. Can we take a picture of you?". He seemed to interrupt me all the time when I was speaking, as if he would have known that we want something from him. He chewed the gum all the time. He asked us if we were friends and we answered to him that we are (although we are sisters!). He said:"OK, you know eachothers.". He noticed that we have the fan book that our great journalist Arto Nyberg had given to him last autumn and he said:"Oh, you have the book.".

He suggested that we took the picture under the marquee and I took first picture of him and my sister and then my sister took the picture of me and him. First we didn't fit in the picture so my sister told me in Finnish that we should go a little bit backwards. Conan kept his hand on my shoulder, I went backwards and he came with me. Then my sister said that we still don't fit in the picture so I said to Conan that "We have to go a little bit..." (I didn't remember the word "backwards" then) and I showed with my finger backwards. Then he said "Allright" and laughed in his weird way, like he laughs to his female guests on the show. I think he did this because he had to keep his hand on my shoulder so long. And I was happier than ever!!!!!! I was thinking in my mind that "Please, take that picture quickly! He has a good expression on his face and I want to capture it!".

After taking the pictures Conan said "allright, see you later", walked away to a black car and then this wonderful man was gone... And we didn't get his autograph to that book although that was our purpose. But we remembered his touch a long time when he kept his hand on our shoulders...

I could put some of the pictures here if you like but I don't know yet how to do it. But I think you now know why I was so excited about my experience. Even the Finland-America society (I don't know how to translate Suomi-Amerikka -seura correctly) has wanted us to tell about our experience for their magazine.

Thanks for listening to me!

That's a great story!


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Hi Bluecross,
I've been away for a little bit, but today popped in and saw your post. Awesome story!!
I posted my experience with Conan under sweet_cone_zone's topic "Don't Hate Me," if ya want to read it.
He was a very nice guy, and I was a nervous wreck!!
And I still feel his big, warm hand as he shook mine!!! Sense memory is a beautiful thing, eh?

I always love to hear stories.

That sentence just reminded me of campfires. So random.

Thank you for sharing though!

WOW!

that's one of a story!! I'm so happy for you


thanks for sharing it!!!

Thanks for help! I thought I should do something like that. But I'm afraid you have to wait a little bit more until I get those pictures here.

It's nice to hear that everyone liked my story and to read that someone else has experienced the same. But I forgot to mention that he was very tall and that's the thing that I remember best about him. I don't even remember how he looked like, he was so tall that he was almost scary!

And about that autograph...Actually I already have his autograph because I have sent some staff to him, a card, a comic and a pillow with Late Night logo (which I had made myself). The last post, a pillow, I sent him last summer and in every post I asked him to send me his autograph. And guess what? On February I got mail from NBC, Conan's signed picture. It took only a half year...Has someone of you sent something to him? I know that he sometimes replies personally. Has someone of you been so lucky?

I have taken pictures of my comic and maybe I can put it here too so you can read it.

Yeah, that's a VERY beautiful thing!

I'm gonna read your story as soon as possible. I hate this computer I'm using now 'cause it tooks me almost half an hour to log in here and I hardly have time to type one message.

OMG! luckeee! since my parents are letting me take a friend to new york when we move in and we are sooo gonna do that!!

but we are gonna hav someone take a picture and right then we are gonna try to kiss him then run off on our skateboards..( hey i pulled it off in my dream)

I hope you'll succeed! I think many of us have dreams like that...

Hello, everybody! Here it finally is, my picture with Conan! I hope you like it! Atleast I do I think you can see it from my face...

OMG what a look he has on his face

he looks like as if he'd been in a hurry: "Come on, take the f'ing pic already"

Very nice pic btw it's a little dark but that can be fixed

Did any one else after their first Late Night taping have the side effects of pure bouncing off the walls happiness and excitement then 1 hour later become horribly deprest?I did.

I had the pure bouncy happiness and then spent the rest of the day walking around New York giggling to myself saying "Time's up? More like MIMES CUP!"
That was a joke on the first show I went to, I didnt just lose my mind
I still get the pure bouncy happiness whenever I get anything Late Night related